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Re:Why I Support the Haskell Foundation by kqr on Thursday June 17, 2021 @05:03AM (#27537555)
How did you arrive at the conclusion that everything has to be about racial diversity? I look at the front page of HN, and very few submissions are about racial diversity. Even in this very article (which is a tiny slice of the discussion on HN) I see very little about racial diversity.

In what sense did you mean everything has to be about racial diversity?

Re:Why I Support the Haskell Foundation by vazyla on Thursday June 17, 2021 @07:40AM (#27538497)
Because it's a programming language we're talking about, not a political party.
Re:Why I Support the Haskell Foundation by nanna on Thursday June 17, 2021 @08:29AM (#27538857)
> Because it's a programming language we're talking about, not a political party.

Categorically wrong. This is a programming language community that we're talking about. Haskell hasn't dropped out of thin air. It's the output of a mostly-voluntary community effort. To strengthen the community by making it open to people who have different backgrounds is to strengthen the language.

The real question is why do you only see racial diversity as a problem.

Re:Why I Support the Haskell Foundation by yakshaving_jgt on Thursday June 17, 2021 @09:37AM (#27539420)
> The real question is why do you only see racial diversity as a problem.

My question to you would be why did you interpret that person's comment that way? Rejecting the hyper-focus on racial diversity which is common in some parts of progressive Western culture is not at all the same as seeing racial diversity as a problem. I agree that in a broad sense a community is strengthened by diverse membership, but I don't agree that the White Guilt hinted at in the original article is constructive.

I think you've constructed a straw-man to argue against here, and that's not at a very nice thing to do.

Re:Why I Support the Haskell Foundation by cdsmith on Thursday June 17, 2021 @07:50AM (#27538556)
As the author of the article, I hope it's clear that we're talking about the community that has formed around the programming language. Racial diversity isn't, to the best of my knowledge, mentioned at all in the Haskell Report or the source code to the GHC compiler. But when I'm talking about the community, that is all about the people in that community. Some of the people in that community have very different backgrounds from myself, and I think that's a valuable thing to celebrate and acknowledge.

That said, it wasn't the point of the article. It's fast becoming the point of this comment thread, though, which is unfortunate.

Re:Why I Support the Haskell Foundation by kqr on Thursday June 17, 2021 @08:21AM (#27538807)
I fall to see how that is an answer to my question. What, specifically, made you think everything is about racial diversity?

I would very much like for you to explain to me how everything you read is about racial diversity, when so little of what I read seems to be.